"Herb" <Herb@the.herb.garden> wrote in message
news:avKSo.212408$ZM.21042@en-nntp-02.dc1.easynews.com...
> JustUs2 wrote:
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>> "Herb" <Herb@the.herb.garden> wrote in message
>> news:TtfSo.608509$Is6.178446@en-nntp-13.dc1.easynews.com...
>>
>>> JustUs2 wrote:
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>>>> "Herb" <Herb@the.herb.garden> wrote in message
>>>> news:5g7So.63958$Ud7.2819@en-nntp-16.dc1.easynews.com...
>>>>
>>>>> JustUs2 wrote:
>>>>>
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>>>>>> "Herb" <Herb@the.herb.garden> wrote in message
>>>>>> news:FV3So.516146$pX3.271182@en-nntp-11.dc1.easynews.com...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> JustUs2 wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Would someone please repost the el 12 Days of Christmas that Maggy
>>>>>>>> posted on the 20th. I cannot get it to download and recombine.
>>>>>>>> Thank you
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Just Me
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Are you sure that you put them in the right sequence before you
>>>>>>> combine them? The smaller parts (usually the last) are often
>>>>>>> delivered first. MS mail products don't know enough to re-sort them,
>>>>>>> as most news readers will do automatically, as well as combine them.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> How large are the pieces that you can see? It's possible that your
>>>>>>> news SERVER is rejecting all of part of the larger (approx 10,000
>>>>>>> line) parts.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Or, you may have a setting in your LiveMail product that puts a
>>>>>>> smaller maximum on what it will accept.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> - Herb
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> There was only 2 parts to it. Thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> That's right. Part 1 was about 10000 lines and part 2 was a little
>>>>> over 4000 lines. I'm not sure what part of my post you interpreted as
>>>>> saying that there were more than 2 parts. OH I see. When I said "the
>>>>> smaller parts" I was talking in general. In this case there was only
>>>>> one 'smaller part'. But you didn't respond to the rest of the post.
>>>>>
>>>>> - Herb
>>>>>
>>>> I've been able to download plenty of huge files, but it is something
>>>> about Maggy's settings that my computer just doesn't like.
>>>> I was able to download the repost just posted. Thanks for your
>>>> concern.
>>>
>>>
>>> And it's exactly what it is about Maggy's OR YOUR settings that makes
>>> your computer not like her posts that I'm trying to find out. Your
>>> asking for a repost everytime she posts something that everybody else
>>> can get raises some flags.
>>>
>>> Solving such problems can make it easier to avoid them or solve them
>>> quickly for others who may encounter similar problems. Requiring that
>>> other people go through the effort of reposting just for you might be an
>>> unnecessary imposition.
>>>
>>> - Herb
>>>
>>>
>> When Maggy posts a single Part file I don't have any problem with it.
>> It is just multipart files that won't combine and I end up with a damaged
>> file or some other error when I try to unzip.
>> I haven't asked for a repost of all the Maggy files, mostust let go.
>> But occasionally there is something I'd like to get.
>> When I combined this last posting, it has parts of 617kb and 301 kb but
>> when it combines to a rar file it is 224 kb. I get the message: The
>> archive is either in unknown format or damaged. I recombine time and
>> again and still get the same error message. I don't want to be an
>> imposition to anyone, I just occasionally ask for help.
>> Does any of this make sense as to why I have that problem? Thanks for
>> your help.
>
> I took some time, and have managed to reproduce your problem! And, as I
> had previously suggested, it results from combining the parts in an
> incorrect sequence.
>
> Taking the EL 12 days of Xmas as an example, it was in two parts, with
> subject lines ending in
>
> ... "embroidery library 12 days of christmas.rar"(2/2)
> and
> ... "embroidery library 12 days of christmas.rar"(1/2)
>
> respectively.
>
> Note that 2/2 PRECEDED 1/2. If you go ahead and combine them in that
> order, all you get is a corrupted .rar file of just over 200kBytes, as you
> discovered.
>
> Outlook Express, and, I presume, Windows Live Mail, have the option to
> sort or resequence multi-part posts. If you move them around so that 1/2
> preceded 2/2, then you get the correct output file.
>
> If the file were a book, it's like tearing it in half and then putting the
> second half first. When it's read, you get to "THE END" prematurely;
> that's exactly what combining out of sequence does and why it results in a
> short (and unreadable) subset.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> - Herb
It makes total sense but when I go to combine the two files they are in the
proper sequence with 1/2 preceding 2/2.
I do look at that option when I have to recombine multiple files, and
occasionally some new reordering. I just don't know what else to do.
Maggy's postings are the only ones I have trouble with.
I appreciate your time trying to get this fixed. Thank you for your help.
I guess I just need a magic wand. Happy New Year.
You know I remember reading something several months back about someone
commenting on the way Maggy posts and "he" didn't understand why more people
weren't having trouble with those postings. It is beyond me where to go
from here.
JustMe
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